ScreenshotOne

June 2022$01 / 23

1. 2022

   June 2022

   LaunchThe chart starts here, at $0

   • Jun 3, 2022Launch, aiming for a first customer by July

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun56 likesI launched http://screenshotone.com, according to my internal deadlines, at the end of May 💪 I give myself 2 months until the end of July to get the first paying customer. 90% marketing, 10% dev 🚀 If I fail, I will not abandon the project, but I will move to the next idea 🤷🏻‍♂️
2. July 2022 – August 20222 months with no post and no figure

3. September 2022

   $161

   Post of Oct 3, 2022 ↗

   • Sep 2, 2022August metrics: one new paying customer

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun19 likesThe summary of August metrics for http://ScreenshotOne.com: +1 paying customer. Four lessons 👇

   • Sep 4, 2022Adds features only on paying customer requests

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun15 likesI am finishing adding features to the current project (http://screenshotone.com) by guessing. Only by paying customer requests or for those who are ready to pay. And complete focus on marketing: new landing page, onboarding, pricing, SEO.

4. October 2022

   $156

   Post of Nov 3, 2022 ↗

   • Oct 3, 2022September 2022: $160.9 revenue, 5 customersSeptember 2022 revenue↗

5. November 2022

   No figure this month

   • Nov 3, 2022October 2022: $155.8 revenue, 9 customersOctober 2022 revenue↗

   • Nov 7, 2022OpenAPI spec to integrate with RapidAPI

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun5 likesI am writing an OpenAPI specification to integrate http://screenshotone.com with @Rapid_API. There is a giant room for improvement and small businesses: 🕹 beautiful playgrounds and good editors 🧱 generating SDKs, SaaS templates, and documentation What do you think?

   • Nov 21, 2022BetaList: 2 visits, one paying customer

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun22 likesOnly 2 visits (0.1%) out of ~1400 for the past 30 days were from @BetaList to http://ScreenshotOne.com. And yet, one of these 2 visits brought a paying customer and not at the cheapest plan. SEO is fantastic, but don't underestimate luck and the power of site directories.

6. December 2022

   No figure this month

   • Dec 22, 2022Stranger built a Ruby SDK for free

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun28 likesGustavo Garcia (@theluctus) built a Ruby SDK for http://ScreenshotOne.com without asking for anything in exchange, just for fun. And we didn't know each other. I am more than shocked and grateful. People are awesome.

   • Dec 28, 2022First page of Google for screenshot API

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun186 likesFor the first time, http://ScreenshotOne.com is on the first page of Google for the "screenshot API" query, which is highly competitive in my niche. My SEO "investments" started to pay off. It took me 12 months to get from the ~90 position to ~9. It is possible, friends.

   • Dec 30, 2022GIF format added

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun18 likesI have added a GIF format on http://ScreenshotOne.com. So, now you can generate GIF images for animated sites in one simple API call. The advantage of GIF images is that you can send them via email, and many clients support rendering them.

7. 2023

   January 2023

   No figure this month

   • Jan 23, 202320 paying customers reached

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun205 likesI have reached a tremendous milestone for http://ScreenshotOne.com—20 paying customers 🥳 ~6 months to get to 10 and only one month to get to 20 🤷🏻‍♂️ What might be the reason? A combination of promotion on Twitter and a huge SEO win—getting to the first page on Google.

8. February 2023

   No figure this month

   • Feb 28, 2023Decides to launch on Product Hunt tomorrow

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun350 likesFuck it! I launch http://ScreenshotOne.com on Product Hunt tomorrow 🚀 I am tired of postponing the launch because I want to add a few more features ☹️ I launch as-is no matter what the result will be 💪 I will be glad if you can support me ❤️

9. March 2023

   $1,016

   Post of Apr 1, 2023 ↗

   • Mar 1, 2023Live on Product Hunt today

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun199 likes🥺 Friends, ScreenshotOne is on Product Hunt today 🚀 I decided to launch yesterday. It is total improvisation without any preparation 🙈 Every vote and reply counts—any support is appreciated ❤️ 🤩 Let's see what kind of beast this Product Hunt is. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/screenshotone

   • Mar 4, 2023Product Hunt result: top 4, 450+ votes

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun109 likesThe Product Hunt launch summary for http://ScreenshotOne.com: 🏆 top 4 🤯 450+ votes & 200+ comments 😍 1800+ unique visits & 80+ sign-ups 👌 5+ new potential customers 💸 an acquisition proposal 💰 a yearly plan upgrade ($140) All of it is only because of you ❤️

   • Mar 22, 2023Crossed $400 MRR

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun90 likesWhile I was traveling, a new MRR milestone for http://ScreenshotOne.com was unlocked—crossed $400 MRR. It took ~7 months to $200 MRR and only ~2 months to $400 MRR. Here are a few thoughts on why it could happen:

   • Mar 22, 2023Numbers since June 2022: $1.4K+ revenue

     Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun41 likesInspired by Maxime, Daniel, and Marc. The numbers for http://ScreenshotOne.com since June 2022: 🌐 24.9K+ unique visitors 👨‍🚀 1K+ signups 💰 $1.4K+ revenue 💳 35 subscribers I don't plan to quit. But... I need to experiment and launch more.

10. April 2023

    $907

    Post of May 2, 2023 ↗

    • Apr 1, 2023March 2023: crossed $1K monthly revenueMarch 2023 revenue↗

    • Apr 3, 2023Acquisition offer, but no wish to sell

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun111 likesI have a proposition for acquiring http://ScreenshotOne.com—we scheduled a call. But I don't want to sell—the project grows tremendously. Different calculators show the price between $50-70K for my current MRR and growth rate. It is not a life-changing sum. I will burn it in a few months in my location. But I started to work as a part-time CTO because I needed money. So, there is no need to sell right now. But new duties take my time from the project and slow its growth. My brain is boiling. This indie life is complicated.

11. May 2023

    No figure this month

    • May 2, 2023April 2023: $907 MRR, a harsh churn monthApril 2023 revenue↗

    • May 4, 2023First affiliate campaign set up

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun30 likesI have just set up my first affiliate campaign for http://ScreenshotOne.com 👉 https://affiliates.reflio.com/invite/screenshotone. Will I buy a Lamborghini car? 😂 Thanks to @useReflio, the setup was quick and straightforward.

    • May 17, 2023Approached $1K MRR before its birthday

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun137 likesIronically, I approached $1K MRR two weeks before the https://ScreenshotOne.com birthday. In 10 years, I will achieve my goal of $10K MRR. Only 10 years... 😂 You might be much luckier than me. But plan your journey accordingly. It might take years.

    • May 18, 2023Public roadmap until mid-2024

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun23 likesTo signal long-term plans and cultivate trust for https://ScreenshotOne.com, I decided to share an approximate product roadmap until the middle of 2024. Regardless of my plans to sell the product or to continue working on it, it makes sense to share the roadmap openly:

12. June 2023

    No figure this month

    • Jun 6, 202350 paying customers after one year

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun143 likesIt was a challenging journey—it took one year. But I did it 💪 50 paying customers for http://ScreenshotOne.com ❤️ I will double down on marketing and product quality 🤩 I advise my competitors to give up right now 🤗

    • Jun 29, 2023A week offline with 100% uptime

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun38 likesThe most outstanding achievement of this year for me is not $1K+ MRR for me. But a trip I took with my family for one week without a laptop and http://ScreenshotOne.com didn't let me down. 100% uptime, no bugs, no serious issues, and problems. Except for one support ticket, but the customer was so lovely that they agreed to wait until I returned. It was risky. But knowing that I didn't take the laptop forced me to prepare harshly: 1. The API is scalable. And it has concurrency limits in place. 2. No big deployments two weeks before the trip. 3. Installed DB UI and GitHub app on my phone. Made sure I had SSH access in the worst case. 4. Asked developer friends in advance if they could back me up if a catastrophic event happened. Now, I know what kind of business I want to build.

13. July 2023

    No figure this month

    • Jul 12, 2023Trying Google Ads again after a failure

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun31 likesI am ready to try Google Ads again. I did it the first time when I launched http://ScreenshotOne.com, and it was a disaster. The landing page wasn't optimized, and the product was buggy. And I made a ton of mistakes—didn't use negative keywords, didn't use exact match. I ended up answering in my support chat questions about how to take screenshots in Windows while building a screenshot API for developers. It was a complete waste of money and time. This time I will do it differently: - a small subset of keywords with exact match exported from Google Search Console; - small daily budget for testing; - checking ads daily and seeing how they perform; - a lot of negative keywords; - expand only when works. Current MRR can cover $500-700 monthly ads budget, and with enough fine-tuning, it might be 500-1000 sign-ups monthly. If it works, I have built a money-printing machine.

14. August 2023

    $1,684

    Post of Sep 4, 2023 ↗

    • Aug 2, 2023July: plateau around 50 customers

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun85 likesInstead of sharing raw numbers for July, I would share a short summary of the state of my journey: 1. http://ScreenshotOne.com is at a plateau, fluctuating around 50 customers. But fluctuating: 3 subscribe, 2 churn. 5 churn, 4 subscribe. I am thinking about how to get out of it. And improving the product on the go. 2.1. I have recently added payments http://DamnGood.Tools, and it brought me 5+ sales in a few days. I will continue adding and improving tools. 2.2. I am thinking of extracting PDF chat as a separate product. It beats everything I did by metrics and has the highest demand across all my products. @damonchen recently shared numbers that prove that the niche is in demand and kindly recommended me to give it a try ❤️ @daniel_nguyenx, in private conversations, also confirms the same 🤗 3. http://LandingHunt.com has a dedicated team to research the market of landing page roasting and what can be done to grow the product. I will soon get the report and decide how to act on it. 4. Consulting is going fine. It distracts me a bit but brings me more or less stable money and peace of mind. I am fluctuating between $3K and $10 K monthly revenue. Summary: I am not focused, I know. I am thinking about hiring or selling some products to free up my time. I am a bit tired. But I don't plan to give up.

    • Aug 14, 2023Makers using ScreenshotOne in the wild

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun69 likesI am still surprised when I see makers from around the world using ScreenshotOne in the wild. http://Herding.app uses the API to generate screenshots of websites for bookmarks. I know, I know. My product is not AI. But I should say it: after 1.5 years of my work, hundreds of users, and already million+ of screenshots, I feel... pleased and super grateful. I will do that $1M ARR sooner or later, but I want to learn how to enjoy a cup of coffee today.

    • Aug 15, 2023Error rate cut sharply in July

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun19 likesIn July, I dramatically reduced the error rate in ScreenshotOne API and plan to improve it even more. I want users to be surprised or even shocked by how good it works. IDK if it is related, but I want to believe that a crazy August results from my job, not a fluctuation.

    • Aug 23, 2023From ~$1000 to $1500+ MRR in weeks

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun155 likesIt is a complete roller coaster. I started August with around $1000 MRR for http://ScreenshotOne.com and ~50 paying customers. And in a few weeks, it is $1500+ MRR and growing, ~65 customers. You can clearly see high churn in June (6/23 on the graph). I was defeated. My reaction? Improve performance, fix many issues, do what customers ask, write content... Because what else can I do? Give up? No, sorry, it is not for me. Also, Google pushed http://ScreenshotOne.com to the second position for the most competitive keyword in my niche, resulting in a spike in paying customers. I am mostly ready to write an SEO course! How hard it is! Results? Silent July (7/23), but what a skyrocketing August (8/23): I want to confess. I still don't understand what is happening. All that thing feels like magic. I work, work, work, then it reacts. But I am not sure what has worked for me and what hasn't. So, I can only continue doing marketing and building a great product. That's all I have control over.

15. September 2023

    $2,401

    Post of Oct 4, 2023 ↗

    • Sep 4, 2023August 2023: MRR grew to $1,684August 2023 revenue↗

    • Sep 17, 2023A paying customer offers to invest

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun58 likesI got to a new unexpected milestone for http://ScreenshotOne.com—a paying customer proposes to invest in the product 🥹 All sensitive information is removed and the chat screenshot is shared with permission of the customer:

    • Sep 21, 2023Reset password broken for 15 months

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun168 likesFinally, after 2500 sign-ups and 70+ paying customers, it turned out that my reset password feature doesn't work 🤷🏻‍♂️ It took only 15 months to get the first reset password request for http://ScreenshotOne.com 😂

    • Sep 22, 2023Rewriting the dashboard in Next.js

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun71 likesThat time has come, I am rewriting the ScreenshotOne dashboard app from Go, raw HTML, CSS, and JS to Next.js. I built the first version of the dashboard with what I knew at that time. I almost built a simple JS build system. It might be a mistake. But I feel limited and slow 🫤 I want to improve onboarding, and users ask me to add more tools (e.g. CSV of URLs to an archive with screenshots). I could do that much faster if I refactored it to Next.js ⚡️ Wish me good luck 😂

16. October 2023

    No figure this month

    • Oct 4, 2023September 2023: $2401.28 revenueSeptember 2023 revenue↗

    • Oct 24, 2023API built to respond no matter what

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun79 likesI built my ScreenshotOne API in a way that it responds to customers no matter what: 1. If the API gateway fails, I serve the request anyway. Even due to the syntax error (thanks to Cloudflare Workers for this feature). 2. If the quota check fails or my primary database is not available, I render a response anyway. 3. Customers don't pay for failed screenshots which motivates me to increase success rate, by the way. And I show them the failure rate. 4. I already have multi-datacenter load balancing by accident and will think if I can add it as a feature. Somedays, I just want to brag and be proud of myself. Thanks for coming to my one-man show.

17. November 2023

    No figure this month

    • Nov 2, 20232,411,128 screenshots since launch

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun40 likesInstead of sharing the MRR numbers of http://ScreenshotOne.com for October 2023. I will share a funny puzzle. The API generated 2,411,128 screenshots in total since the launch on 29 May 2022 till today. And 576,401 screenshots were generated in the last 30 days. Forever yours, Sherlock ❤️

    • Nov 6, 2023PDF generation API as a next product

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun30 likes💡 One of my next products will be something adjacent to ScreenshotOne or even fully reusing it—PDF generation API. I have 2-3 incoming requests monthly if my API can generate PDFs, it can. But it is not specialized in that. Build it.

    • Nov 9, 2023Close to #1 on Google for screenshot API

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun40 likesI am pretty close to taking the first position on Google for the http://ScreenshotOne.com main keyword—"screenshot API": And I have never optimized for any variation of the keyword and Google still shows me synonyms at good positions. But I have counter-examples when synonyms are really far away from each other. For example, for "full page screenshot" and "whole page screenshot" the difference is almost two times: Do you optimize for all variations, how do you tackle it? My current decision is to vary keywords in posts.

    • Nov 25, 2023OpenAI Vision integration shipped

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun74 likesScreenshotOne 💕 OpenAI Vision While my kids are sleeping, I can't stop shipping. So, I have just deployed direct integration with the OpenAI Vision API into ScreenshotOne. It will help some of my customers save time on integration and improve the performance of their use cases when both are used. It is as stable as the OpenAI API 🙃 Now, you can execute vision prompts over site screenshots directly in one simple API call:

    • Nov 30, 202310K visits, 5000 sign-ups, 0 paying customers

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun129 likes10K visits and 5000 sign-ups in just a week for http://ScreenshotOne.com resulted in 0 paying customers. Yes, zero. The banal lesson of the month (and maybe of all my marketing journey) would be for me that it is not about the absolute volume of the traffic. The absolute volume is a vanity metric. It is about conversions and revenue at the end of the day. $10K/mo with 15 visits a month is better than $100 with 3500 visits. Yet there are, of course, benefits of virality—awareness, brand, and people talking about you, which partially means having a valuable moat. And Google branding search has jumped for me: Now I am in the strong second position for my most competitive keyword and soon, probably, will take the first 🤞 Taking the first position might indeed result in increased revenue.

18. December 2023

    No figure this month

    • Dec 9, 2023Shipped a feature that may cut MRR 15-30%

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun79 likesI just deployed a feature that will decrease my MRR, maybe by 15-30%. But I don't care about that much. Now, it is possible to get both HTML and a screenshot in one request with ScreenshotOne. It means that customers will send fewer requests and will be charged less. But I am happy that their product will be more performant and stable because of this. I believe that eventually, it will pay off.

    • Dec 24, 2023Dashboard rewrite to Next.js completed

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun110 likesI have completed rewriting the ScreenshotOne dashboard from Go and pure HTML/CSS to Next.js (TypeScript). I thought it would take two, but it took me three months to accomplish the task. I underestimated how much code I wrote and how much I needed to rebuild. The goal was to accelerate my engineering and I hope it will pay back, soon. I find it much easier and more joyful to build UIs with React than with pure JavaScript. By the way, ChatGPT helped me a lot and some pages almost was translated by it. And If I were to give advice, I would recommend not to try both improving and rewriting your codebase. The moment I stopped improving and just started to copy the logic, I advanced much faster and finally could accomplish the task.

19. 2024

    January 2024

    $3,639

    Post of Feb 1, 2024 ↗

    • Jan 2, 2024100 paying customers after 1.5 years

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun157 likesIt took 1.5 years to get to 100 paying customers for http://ScreenshotOne.com since the launch. It was quite a journey. I was directionless—just doing everything to get to that number. The next stop is 300. But I will work a bit more systematically now—reducing churn, increasing ARPU, learning my customer needs, and other "boring" tasks including increasing core product quality. I am pumped—2 years ago I couldn't imagine that at all. Who knows what else can happen next.

    • Jan 16, 2024First test written for the API

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun242 likesI will be canceled by the indie hacker community. But 100+ customers relying on your API at their business is not a joke. Long story short, I wrote the first test for the ScreenshotOne API.

20. February 2024

    $4,310

    Post of Mar 1, 2024 ↗

    • Feb 1, 2024January 2024: $3,639 MRR, 119 customersJanuary 2024 revenue↗

    • Feb 11, 2024Affiliate results: 3 customers, $70 revenue

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun46 likesI finally got referral data from Reflio for ScreenshotOne and merged it with Paddle. As a result: 9 months running my affiliate campaign 32 affiliates 15273 referral visits 1949 sign-ups 3 paying customers $70 revenue $10.5 affiliate earnings, but I will pay $100 A few thoughts: 1. Affiliate marketing is not a silver bullet and people won't do marketing for you magically. Now, you have to work on marketing for customers and on marketing your product to potential affiliates. 2. You might potentially lose revenue if your affiliate sells in the same channel—currently, I don't have such a problem. 3. People won't promote you if they don't trust you. 4. Positioning done by affiliates matters, too, they might bring you a lot of traffic, but it can be unconvertible since not relevant. I don't have advice, sorry. I am still learning and I will keep tuning the program and experimenting.

    • Feb 20, 2024Featured in Cloudflare Built With series

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun152 likeshttp://ScreenshotOne.com is featured in the Cloudflare "Built With" series 🥳

    • Feb 25, 202420+ use case pages added for SEO

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun49 likesA week ago, I added 20+ use case pages for http://ScreenshotOne.com and they already have first impressions on Google Search. Goals: 1. Showcase how the product can be used. 2. SEO. 3. Integrate testimonials seamlessly within the related context. What else can be improved?

21. March 2024

    $5,666

    Post of Apr 1, 2024 ↗

    • Mar 1, 2024February 2024: $4,310 MRR, 18.8% growthFebruary 2024 revenue↗

    • Mar 8, 2024Twitter break until $5K MRR

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun172 likesI love you all and want to support everybody, but I spend way too much time on Twitter. Currently, it drifts my focus from what's important. I am taking a break and I allow myself to return only if I reach $5K MRR for http://ScreenshotOne.com. Let's go 💪

22. April 2024

    $5,598

    Post of May 3, 2024 ↗

    • Apr 1, 2024March 2024: $5,666 MRR, 31.1% growthMarch 2024 revenue↗

    • Apr 4, 2024Mistake: relying too much on documentation

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun55 likesOne of the mistakes I made was relying too much on documentation and not showing all the use cases for http://ScreenshotOne.com on the playground page. It took me a lot of support tickets and event logs to understand. People sign up, check out the product, and quit if they don't find what they need. Rarely somebody will spend time reading and searching documentation. So, it is time to fix it, and I have already deployed "scrolling screenshots":

    • Apr 11, 2024S3-compatible storage tester added

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun21 likesI have finally added an integration tester between any S3-compatible storage and http://ScreenshotOne.com. It will save potentially a few hours per week for myself and my customers. Step by step, adding these small improvements will get me fewer and fewer support tickets.

    • Apr 14, 2024Crossed $6K MRR

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun272 likeshttp://ScreenshotOne.com just crossed $6K MRR 🤯 Since the product keeps growing without adding new features, I think I will focus on quality for a while now and marketing. I have corner cases that I don't handle perfectly.

    • Apr 15, 2024~$2500/mo on servers, load testing

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun119 likesI currently spend ~$2500/mo on servers for http://ScreenshotOne.com (Kubernetes, Google Cloud Run, and Hetzner) rendering around 1,000,000 screenshots and videos monthly. Without any impact on my customers, I just did load testing on production to have an etalon result. I will compare it with my optimizations and improvements. Let's see how far I can go. I need both cost-effectiveness, performance, and stability. *These 21 failures out of 55,000 API requests make me crazy as a perfectionist.

    • Apr 30, 2024Documentation URL added to API errors

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun17 likesI am improving error handling for http://ScreenshotOne.com to make the API as self-service as possible. I added the documentation URL in the error response. It will allow users to check how to handle the error straight away: In the dashboard request log, users will also see an error and it is a link to the dedicated documentation page: The next possible improvements: 0. I am starting with a few, but cover all errors. 1. Send an email when the error is encountered for the first time with help on how to handle it. 2. Automatically analyze the error and what caused it and provide code examples on how to fix it. 3. More analytics of error rate by error types—needed more for me, not for my customers. Any more ideas or best practices you can share?

23. May 2024

    $7,498

    Post of Jun 3, 2024 ↗

    • May 3, 2024April 2024: $5,598 MRR, slight declineApril 2024 revenue↗

    • May 8, 2024Tried Cloudflare Browser Rendering

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun52 likesI tried Cloudflare Browser Rendering to see if I could use it for my screenshot API. Short observations after a few hours of playing with it: 1. You can not run more than 2 browser instances in parallel. For screenshots, it is critical, because you have a global browser lock when screenshot pages. You need many browser instances to screenshot websites in parallel without any problems. 2. You use it in workers through an outdated fork of Puppeteer which is OK for many simple use cases, but in my case, it is impossible, I use a lot of features from Puppeteer, extending it in hundreds of possible ways. Also, I need more granular access to the browser instance, e.g. to stream videos. 3. It is buggy. It rendered full-page screenshots when I didn't ask for them or only screenshots of half a page without any reason. 4. You pay only $0.1 per session and you can reuse sessions. I didn't have time to test it, but it means that for one month you can pay $0.1 for one browser instance. But it might crash, so it is probably not that easy. If you don't reuse sessions and use concurrent instances, it becomes expensive quickly. E.g. you will pay $200 for 2,000 screenshots, while in ScreenshotOne it is only $17. Summary: I am super excited that Cloudflare entered that space. It indeed can improve pricing in that space for using headless browsers. Running them is a real pain. But for me, it is too early, I will keep an eye on it and see if I can migrate one or add it as an additional service to my customers, maybe even at much cheaper prices. If you need some scrapping or have simple use cases, it is probably good enough to start using it and trying it. But if you need scale, I am not sure, I would use it now. If you are curious about more details, I published a blog post 👉 https://screenshotone.com/blog/cloudflare-browser-rendering/

24. June 2024

    $8,414

    Post of Jul 2, 2024 ↗

    • Jun 3, 2024May 2024: $7,498 MRR, 33.9% growthMay 2024 revenue↗

25. July 2024

    $8,315

    Post of Aug 2, 2024 ↗

    • Jul 2, 2024June 2024: $8,414 MRR, lower expensesJune 2024 revenue↗

    • Jul 8, 2024Plan to cut churn from ~10% to ~5%

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun93 likesI must reduce churn from ~10% to ~5% for http://ScreenshotOne.com. I am back to asking every churned customer by email why did they churn. I write personalized emails based on their business use case, the usage of my product. I try to ask just one precise question, not an open question—"Why did you cancel?", but "Was the error rate in 5% not satisfying" or "Did you find the price of X for Y screenshots unreasonable?" 100% response rate as of now and got the first valuable insights. Will keep collecting without acting, now. Need a good sample size to generalize and act. The difference in reducing churn can make you survive or quit a business. For my current parameters:

    • Jul 18, 2024Crossed $100K ARR

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun341 likesI forgot to brag in public🤦‍♂️ But I crossed $100K ARR recently for http://ScreenshotOne.com and it feels surreal. I am forever grateful to everybody who rooted for me and helped me 🩷 I also wish to thank those who tested my product and gave feedback. And to those who paid for it. A huge part of my current milestone success is copying mental patterns (or models like @GaborPfalzer says) from people who are building in public and not afraid to share their learnings and lessons—what works and what not. You all are the best! If you need any help from me, advice, or whatever, you know where to find me 🙏

    • Jul 28, 2024Request log and error docs in progress

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun29 likesI am slowly heading towards a complete request log for http://ScreenshotOne.com. Plus docs for errors. It helps customers resolve issues faster and decreases support tickets for me 😻 It is far from perfect, but good enough for the beginning.

26. August 2024

    No figure this month

    • Aug 2, 2024July 2024: $8,315 MRR, slight declineJuly 2024 revenue↗

    • Aug 22, 2024Numbers compared with @daniel_nguyenx

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun93 likesWe compared numbers for our products with @daniel_nguyenx. Enjoy: http://KTool.io (B2C): 1. $1366 MRR with 300 customers 2. 17K visitors 3. 2 hours spent monthly now 4. ~$250 in expenses 5. 5.5% churn 6. ~29 months since launch http://ScreenshotOne.com (B2B): 1. $9002 MRR with 254 customers 2. 10K visitors monthly 3. 100+ hours of work monthly now 4. ~$3000 in expenses 5. 6.9% churn 6. ~26 months since launch I want to work as much as Daniel and have his expenses, but my MRR 😂 Anyway, for me, it is a perfect example of "the grass is always greener on the other side".

    • Aug 25, 2024Customers use it for scraping and PDFs

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun58 likesI have customers who indeed use http://ScreenshotOne.com for scraping. And it seems to be a bigger market than generating screenshots. I even bought a domain once—http://ScrapingOne.com. I have customers who generate PDFs, and I also thought to launch a PDF generator as a separate product, and bought a domain, too. And so many other use cases that could be spun off as a new product. But I have decided to focus on one product and almost one use case till I reach $10K MRR. My focus might be a huge mistake. But I still have much to learn: doing great customer support, reducing churn, and, of course, marketing. If I were to launch a new product every month, I would learn how to launch a new product every month. But building one product allows me to get these skills with more depth. And that's what I am curious about now—I want more depth.

27. September 2024

    $10,506

    Post of Oct 4, 2024 ↗

    • Sep 13, 2024Lessons from launching sync-only API

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun43 likesI launched http://ScreenshotOne.com with only synchronous API support. The upside was that it was easy to integrate it compared to the asynchronous variant—just call `http://api.screenshotone.com?url=example.com` and you get back a binary image. But the downside is that it is really hard to scale synchronous APIs that have long processing times, like rendering screenshots for example. I need to spin up new machines in realtime, and always ensure overprovisioning to handle request spikes. If I were to start again, I would probably go with the asynchronous option first but with a synchronous SDK wrapper. Now prototyping a new version that will be asynchronous by default and current synchronous API methods will be just wrappers. It requires tremendous refactoring—introducing queues, workers, and all that. But if it works well, it will be well worth it. Probably, will improve the success rate, and performance and will utilize resources more efficiently.

    • Sep 18, 2024$10K MRR after 28 months

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun485 likesIt took me 28 months after the launch of http://ScreenshotOne.com to reach $10K MRR with 263 customers. It is a super important milestone for me—the top goal I chased for the last 2+ years. Ironically, it wasn't about money. It was about me sending a message to my little self in the past—that he could do it, that everything would be fine. I did it for him. It wasn't easy. But it was worth it. I am forever grateful to everybody who supported me on that journey. And to everybody who shared their lessons and stories about their path. It all counts.

28. October 2024

    $11,682

    Post of Nov 1, 2024 ↗

    • Oct 4, 2024September 2024: $10,506, 267 customersSeptember 2024 revenue↗

    • Oct 25, 2024AI tool to remove cookie banners

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun144 likesInstead of hiring a developer for http://ScreenshotOne.com to help remove cookie banners for screenshots, I wrote a simple AI tool to do that 🤯 It is a huge win for my business because: 1. I often get support tickets to block undetected cookie banners. I spend on them from 30 to 90 minutes of work. Now, I can just run a tool and get the code to remove banners immediately. 2. That kind of job is super boring—it is a real example of suffering. It is great, that I can outsource it to AI, not humans. However, there is a lot of work ahead, and it doesn't always work as expected. Ideally, it should work for my customers as magic in the background without them even noticing it. And will remove a lot of headaches for myself, too. AI has now a real impact on businesses, my friends.

29. November 2024

    $12,959

    Post of Dec 1, 2024 ↗

    • Nov 1, 2024October 2024: $11,682 MRR, churn improvingOctober 2024 revenue↗

    • Nov 13, 2024Checking Bing after a Google update

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun43 likesGoogle just updated its algorithm rankings—some will win, and some of us will lose. But we don't give up. And it is a perfect time to check what's happening with Bing. Let's start with visitor analytics for http://ScreenshotOne.com. And it is not zero:

    • Nov 14, 2024Testing 3 free months on annual plans

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun14 likesI don't give discounts for http://ScreenshotOne.com. But giving 3 months for free for annual plans instead of 2 seems worth experimenting. It might give me the cash I can reinvest. Why not try? Just submitted a pull request. Don't miss the opportunity!

    • Nov 16, 2024Sponsored a site for $200 for one month

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun56 likesJust sponsored https://PublicAPIs.io/. $200 for one month. I can't imagine a more perfect fit for ScreenshotOne. If you have an API product, there is one more slot left. I will report on the results later.

    • Nov 19, 2024llms.txt and llms-full.txt deployed

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun32 likesDeployed `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt` for ScreenshotOne. It was 10 lines of code with Astro. Tested with ChatGPT & Cursor—works perfectly. Plus, might help me with answering support questions. If you build it, submit it to https://llmstxt.directory/ by @screenfluent.

30. December 2024

    No figure this month

    • Dec 1, 2024November 2024: $12,959 MRR, 303 customersNovember 2024 revenue↗

    • Dec 15, 2024Win-win integration with Sergey's service

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun20 likesIt is such a win-win integration. Or even a more win to me than to Sergey? He saves time on screenshot automation's burdens (https://screenshotone.com/blog/directify-feedback/) and pays nothing for that. I have a "fee" for every customer to whom he promotes his service 🤯

31. 2025

    January 2025

    $13,602

    Post of Feb 2, 2025 ↗

    • Jan 31, 2025Every support ticket must lead to an artifact

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun41 likesEvery customer support ticket must lead to an artifact: - Update your documentation. - Improve your product onboarding or playground. - Or even start targeting different customer profiles. One of my customers reached out to improve their rendering performance. I helped them and wrote a guide 👉 https://screenshotone.com/docs/guides/performance/. Next time, I will just send the guide.

32. February 2025

    $14,649

    Post of Mar 2, 2025 ↗

    • Feb 2, 2025January 2025: $13,602 MRR, 340 customersJanuary 2025 revenue↗

    • Feb 21, 2025Thanks for a Bubble plugin by @revidoco

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun63 likesDon't quit on day two. It takes time to build trust, so that somebody invested their time and built an integration with your product. Huge thanks to @revidoco for building a plugin for integrating ScreenshotOne with Bubble 👉 https://bubble.io/plugin/screenshotone-1732272787355x675035896606359600

33. March 2025

    No figure this month

    • Mar 2, 2025February 2025: $14,649 MRR, 377 customersFebruary 2025 revenue↗

    • Mar 18, 2025Updates since January: MCP server, Markdown

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun65 likesLaunching a new project yesterday doesn't mean I forgot about my main product, http://ScreenshotOne.com. Since January 2025: - Built and published an MCP server. - Added conversion of any website to Markdown. - Improved organization management: transferring roles and removing members. - Added extraction of the shadow DOM content. - Fail rendering intentionally based on different conditions. - Improved rendering cluster performance and reliability. Uptime will be much better. - Completely rebuilt authentication in the dashboard. - Optionally trigger downloading screenshots when links are opened in the browser. - Created example projects on how to use the API. - We are completely redesigning the marketing website. And many more updates. In May 2025, it will be 3 years since the launch, and I have never been that excited to keep improving the product and growing it. It is only the beginning of the journey.

    • Mar 25, 2025Paid features he chose not to build

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun67 likesFeatures I was asked to add to ScreenshotOne by people ready to pay, but I didn't: 1. Screenshot comparison over time. I prototyped a lot, but it feels like a different product. It is hard to make it right and reduce false positives. I don't want to build something that won't work. 2. Crawling and archiving the whole website. Every month, I am asked if I can crawl and archive the whole site. While it looks like it is easy for me to implement, it is a completely different product for a different set of customers. 3. Chatting with website screenshots with AI. I had that feature almost the day after Open AI released its Vision API. But it is implemented via "bring your key". I didn't know how to price it well and didn't advance with it. Maybe one day I implement them as separate products or as parts of the current one, but I prefer to stay focused on one single feature and ensure it works perfectly.

    • Mar 26, 2025Building a tool to rank in LLMs

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun41 likesI started to build for myself. Take http://LLMConsole.com, for example. It will help me to rank ScreenshotOne high across LLMs. I already get paying customers from them. But I want to see the blind spots and make sure I don't sleep on opportunities. And if it works for me. It will work for others. And I don't talk about the joy of building a product for yourself and being your first user. Solve pains for yourself. And make sure there is enough people with some pains like you ready to pay.

    • Mar 30, 2025March 2025: crossed $16K MRR

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun381 likesMy build-in-public March 2025 report: 1. http://ScreenshotOne.com crossed $16K MRR and 400 paying customers. We are completely rebuilding the marketing website. And I finally managed to improve uptime and reduce errors dramatically, except for a few types of errors. I will keep working on that. 2. http://LLMConsole.com has been launched. I need it to help me with marketing ScreenshotOne for LLMs. But I am still researching if there is any difference in optimizing for search engines and LLMs. 3. After reaching $10K MRR in September 2024, I didn't know what to do next. And now I finally have some goal in my mind that resonates. And I will work on that. Thanks for your follows and support. How was your month?

34. April 2025

    $19,400

    Post of Apr 30, 2025 ↗

    • Apr 1, 2025First user via the MCP server

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun46 likesIt begins. ScreenshotOne got a user because of the MCP server I launched a few months ago 🥳

    • Apr 10, 2025Shares a full blog post with photos

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun143 likesStarted to write it as a simple post, and then it exploded into the full-blown blog post. Plus, I wanted to share a few photos. I hope you enjoy it 👉 https://screenshotone.com/blog/200000-arr-and-400-paying-customers/
    • Apr 30, 2025April 2025: ~$19,400, a record monthApril 2025 revenue↗

35. May 2025

    No figure this month

    • May 7, 2025Fully focused on ScreenshotOne

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun60 likesEverybody asks me about http://LLMConsole.com, reaching out in DMs, LinkedIn, mentioning me... It feels like people are pulling me to keep building it. Asking to pay... But I have so little time now. I am fully focused on ScreenshotOne. I don't know if it is a mistake, but it started to grow better and requires a lot of attention from me. It is close to reaching $20K in monthly revenue! A lot of people write about optimizations for LLMs, but it is more nuanced than they present it. Each LLM is built and trained differently, and SEO automatically doesn't translate to LLMs. I do not want to sell "snake oil". Against the common advice on social media, I closed sign-ups for LLMConsole now. I just can't keep up with addressing all the feedback. I will iterate more on the analytics and delivering the real value. And will re-open it again. But you can keep using the free tool on the landing page 👉 https://llmconsole.com/ and keep sending me feedback. I consider it, all. Love you all ❤️

36. June 2025

    $19,771

    Post of Jul 1, 2025 ↗

    • Jun 10, 2025Multiple API keys now supported

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun70 likesShipped new API key management system (for ScreenshotOne). After almost 500 paying customers and 3 years since the launch! Before that only one key was available max 🙈 Now you can create and manage multiple keys. It was requested so often recently that it was illegal to deny. Still no dark mode.

    • Jun 12, 2025Almost $20K MRR, copycats every week

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun277 likesTo whoever created that and copied http://ScreenshotOne.com completely: I am almost at $20K MRR, and I now see new copycats every week. I am not afraid of them. I just don't believe it really works. Every few months I see a few of them abandoned. You will likely spend a few years to realize how hard it is to pull off at least $1K MRR in this niche and how many problems it has. Not gatekeeping, honestly sharing. I love ScreenshotOne and will keep working on it. But if I were to start again, I would not create a screenshot API, I would create something in a huge market and would focus on one simple feature that solves one particular pain well. Then make the product so good, that people would cry from happiness when using it. But if you anyway decide to compete, pick one particular feature and make it better than others, you need to differentiate yourself somehow. Otherwise, why would somebody choose your copy of ScreenshotOne than the original?

    • Jun 23, 2025500 paying customers after 3.5 years

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun342 likesIt took 3.5 years for http://ScreenshotOne.com to get to 500 paying customers. 1000 paying customers is the next goal. Hopefully till the end of 2025 ❤️

    • Jun 26, 2025n8n integration built

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun93 likesBuilt n8n integration for ScreenshotOne 🥳 In a few clicks, you can: 📸 render website screenshots 📄 PDFs from HTML or URLs 🎬 scrolling screenshots and videos 🔥 and more... All as part of your workflows in your favorite automation platform 👉 https://screenshotone.com/blog/n8n-integration/

37. July 2025

    No figure this month

    • Jul 1, 2025June 2025: $19,771 MRRJune 2025 revenue↗

    • Jul 4, 2025PDF generation API bet might pay off

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun52 likesMy bet on the PDF generation API might pay off. I had a set of customers that used ScreenshotOne to generate PDFs, I never promoted it much that way. But recently started to actively work on it. And today deploying new features requested by potential paying customers 🤗

    • Jul 4, 2025Uptime is 99.997%

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun27 likesSome praise it, but a few replies suggest that my uptime might seem like or even be fake. It is 99.997% (for ScreenshotOne). I honestly always thought it was really low and targeted much higher numbers. Recently, even when a huge part of the Internet experienced downtime, my API kept working. And: 1. If my database fails, I keep rendering and do not count requests. This is at my cost, but I want my customers to not experience API failures. 2. If my API gateway fails, the request is proxied directly to the rendering services. 3. If my main Kubernetes cluster fails, the request is re-routed to Google Cloud Run. 4. I tried to overload and kill production and see what happens. And where I saw bottleneck, I tried to fix it. In the early days, I had a setup with phone calls in case of any error; it quickly forced me to fix as much as I can. I am yet not where I want to be. But what if some day I reach 99.999%?

    • Jul 28, 2025Max MRR metric predicts his MRR well

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun28 likesRead about it, of course, but then go and calculate the "Max MRR" metric proposed by Jason for your business. You will have a lot of fun. The Max MRR fluctuates for ScreenshotOne, but it indeed seems to predict my current MRR well. And not only MRR. Do you notice this drop at the end of the chart? If it predicts right, there is a new anxiety month awaits me ahead 😂

38. August 2025

    $21,609

    Post of Aug 31, 2025 ↗

    • Aug 10, 2025Free screenshot tool for SEO in LLMs

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun55 likesI built https://TakeScreenshot.app to render website screenshots as a free tool to promote ScreenshotOne. I am trying a new experiment in SEO for LLMs. One tool per one domain and everything optimized around it, instead of many tools on one domain like I do now. It leads to: 1. Competing with myself in search results. And I like that! Can't lose to myself 😂 2. Signaling that one website is all you need to LLMs to satisfy certain prompts. One step at a time. Let's see if it works! Also played with Drizzle ORM 👌 and SQLite. And don't ask how I built it, please.

    • Aug 28, 2025Playground Presets shipped

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun19 likesShipped Playground Presets for http://ScreenshotOne.com ✨ It complicates the playground, but I can’t keep rejecting this feature request. Developers need to be able to create different configurations of API requests and switch between them, plus share them with their teams.
    • Aug 31, 2025August 2025: $21,609 MRR, 575 customersAugust 2025 revenue↗

39. September 2025

    $22,451

    Post of Oct 3, 2025 ↗

    • Sep 2, 2025Turned down offers to sell

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun29 likesI had a few interesting offers to sell ScreenshotOne too, but I didn’t sell. Like for Jack, it is the same for me—there is still so much to learn and improve. It is my “MBA.” Sell and start again from zero? Why do it if it is not a life-changing amount of money ($10m+)?

40. October 2025

    No figure this month

    • Oct 3, 2025September 2025: $22,451 MRR, slowest monthSeptember 2025 revenue↗
41. November 2025 – April 20266 months with no post and no figure

42. 2026

    May 2026

    No figure this month

    • May 29, 20264 years since launch: $33K MRR

      Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun1K likesI launched http://ScreenshotOne.com on May 29, 2022, 4 years ago 🥳 Since then, it has grown to $33K MRR with over 1,000 paying customers and executed more than 100,000,000 API requests. It is nothing impressive compared to the recent successes of people making millions in months after launch. But for me, it was life-changing: 0. A lot of luck involved, but I proved to myself I can achieve things. 1. Build my life the way I want it. 2. This allowed me to spend a lot of time with my kids and family. I almost didn’t miss any important events for them. 3. To fund pleasures. I have been reading every day, traveling, and meeting interesting people. 4. To give back to others and sponsor certain projects/people. One of the biggest successes for me is that I found ways to sustain my motivation to work on the product, and I don't see why I would stop. Grateful to everyone who supported me on this journey. And onto the next chapter. 🚀 Ask me anything.